OUR SEASON STARTS - A FUN NIGHT

The Moonee Valley 2025/26 season got under way with a club dinner at our long-time sponsor the Moonee Ponds Club on October 4.
The onfield start had already been delayed by a week due to lack of available pitches, but it didn't dampen the enthusiasm at our launch.
We combined the launch with our trophy presentation for our 2025 Mid Year Cricket Association winter season.
Our winter awards were: Batting Rohit Choudhary 155 runs @ 51.67; Bowling Sunny Singh with 11 wickets @ 16.18; Fielding Vansh Tandon; and Most Valuable Player Maks Rahman.
The voting for the MVP was: Maks Rahman 17; Aksha Perera 16; Sunny Singh 15; Rohit Choudhary 13; Javed Mushtaq, Lachlan Smith 11; Vansh Tandon 10; Gurinder Dhaliwal, Sagar Bhatia 9; Max Caspersz, Krish Kanchan, Tony Van Beek 4; Joe Adams 3; Jerome Caspersz, Indika Perera, Prashant Hirani, Kaushik Kalam 2; Ewan Campbell 1.
Above: Maks Rahman (left) and Vansh Tandon with their awards.
We had a strong second half to the winter season, with a couple of good wins coming late.
President Charlie Walker did the welcome, and outlined our expectations for the season ahead.
**For more pictures from the launch, click HERE

Barooga - away for our pre-season hit out

                 
Our Barooga pre-season team. L-R: Back - Ashen Fernando, Dejan Gilevski, Jaspreet Bhatti, Joshua Gorry (capt), Krish Kanchan and Indika Perera. Front - Aksha Perera, Luca Nimorakiotakis, Stephen Ward, Sunil Bhandari and Cameron McGregor.
Moonee Valley got some valuable pre-season turf practice with a game at Barooga on the September 20/21 weekend. Playing against Oak Park/St Francis on the Barooga No. 2 ground, we struggled to make much impact with the bat and then felt the impact of their big hitters.
We were all out for 85 in the 35th over of the 40-over innings, then saw Oak Park/St Francis compile 7/210.
Jaspreet Bhatti top scored for Moonee Valley with 20, while Luca Nimorakiotakis, Dejan Gilevski and Aksha Perera all made 11.
Pick of our bowlers was Sunil Bhandari with 3/20 from his eight overs, including three maidens.
The weekend was jointly organised by the Moonee Valley and Barooga cricket clubs. At the same time as our game on the Saturday, Barooga played Glenroy.
The Barooga Cricket Club then hosted dinner and drinks at its pavilion, leading to watching the AFL Prelim final between Brisbane and Collingwood.
In his speech after the games Barooga Cricket Club President Jason "Guru" Stephens acknowledged the long-standing link with Moonee Valley. We have entered a team in Barooga's Over 35s tournament every year since 2014 (bar the COVID lockdown) and twice won the competition. Guru even played two tournament games with us as a fill-in player.

OUR 2024/25 WISDEN - IT'S HERE NOW

The Moonee Valley 2024/25 Senior Wisden is out now, with hours of reading in the statistics, reviews and club facts contained in the 158 pages.
There are plenty of photos too in a weighty document that chronicles our great club's past as well as our present, including details of the season just gone.
Who scored centuries, what new records were set, who was honored for competition awards – it’s all there.
The Moonee Valley Wisden has been compiled every season since 1983/84 and all the back issues are on our website at https://www.mooneevalleycricket.com.au/article/seniorwisdensandplayers - except for the 1986/87 edition, and anyone with a copy in their archives please contact me.
On our website you can also find pdf versions of a lot of our old scorebooks – you can access them at https://www.mooneevalleycricket.com.au/events-and-dates.html so there’s plenty of reading there too.
This year’s Wisden has a handy guide and index on Page 2, both for the 2024/25 document and for some past pages to access through the website.
For a teaser on this year’s Wisden, have a look to find:
* Which 12 players made the Wisden Team of the Year? (Hint: See Page 3)
* Who was selected as captain of our Team of the Year?
* Who was our leading wicket-taker in 2024/25? (Hint: See Page 34). And who had the best bowling average?
* Who are the only three players in our history with a bowling average under 10 {minimum 30 wickets}? (Hint: See Page 140).
*Only four players in our history have a batting average over 65? Two of them are still current players. (Hint: See Page 139).
* Who were the three players who scored centuries in 2024/25? (Hint: See Page 20)
* Who are the five players selected as a Moonee Valley Wisden Player of the Year six or more times? (Hint: See Pages 6).
This information is all available - you just have to look.
So start reading - here's the link
Cheers,
Charlie Walker, Editor, Moonee Valley Wisden

*CRICKET - STILL VACANCIES IN ALL

TEAMS 

Moonee Valley Cricket Club is always keen to talk to potential new players, and there are vacancies in all teams - our Saturday and Sunday turf teams, our Saturday men's hard-wicket team, our Sunday women's team and junior teams at all levels.
Anyone interested in joining Moonee Valley can phone senior coach Brayden McGregor on 0429 559 797, junior co-ordinator Paul Sevenson on 0407 556 950 or President Charlie Walker on 0411 705 381. Anyone wanting information can also email us at [email protected]

Main Club contact details:

* Charlie Walker - President 0411 705 381; 9370 1802
* Allan Cumming - Treasurer 0438 380 990
* Sarah Fenn - Secretary 0438 141 179
* Mark Gauci - Vice President 0457 778 335 
* Paul Sevenson - Junior Co-ordinator - 0407 556 950   

Emails: [email protected]
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For more contacts, see " Office bearers & Officials " under "Club News & Info" at the top of the page

Last updated : October 5, 2025.
For more of our history, including our Premierships, click HERE